The Ball doesn't get enough love
>>23793474https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4WwJ6OVSwkM
>>23793479
Always be ballin'.
I was disappointed gcucks didn't have a ball in it. Even the zock got a cameo
In what situation would piloting The Ball give you a strategic advantage?
>>23793537Every situation. All fall to the Ball
what game was this?
Ball shmup when?
>>23793550Looks like from Dynasty Warriors Gundam games but I'm not sure which one.
>>23793537it's a space technicalyou use it because it's cheap and it'll do the job
Polypod Ball, my beloved
Any reason why they couldn't just put a beam magnun on a very sturdy support on the ball
>>23793615the balls did not have a reactor, used energy packs so no beams.They should definitely have up-gunned them though. Modular weapon / ammo pods would have fit perfect for them.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kLz6a4-Zivo
>>23793537The one where Shiro used the tow cable on a zaku
>>23793623yeah they do
>>23793474True, I miss when Gundam series had stuff that wasn’t overly elaborate super mechs
Okay, but what if it was a rugby ball?
>>23793474The fuck you talking about? They were still doing active military duty during the late Victory era.
I'm still annoyed that Gundam Wikia refuses to acknowledge that the Ball Type K uses 180mm cannons despite the anime and the databooks confirming it. The reason they refuse? One moderator said Ball Type K's doesn't seem big enough and he doesn't care what the databooks say. Then he deleted the entire weapons section of the Ball type K. Any attempts to restore it results in a ban for the user.
>>23793474
>>23793826Are you referring to the Gwigsies? They're not quite Balls but are in the same vein of sorts.
Balls on motorcycles!
>>23793646>Gets the most zeek ship kills until GM mass production in your path
>>23794140RB-133 High Ball.
>>23793696One thing I really liked about IBO was the Mobile Workers, they had relevance even in the second season. It added a fun asymmetric element to some battles.>>23793882That's pretty neat.>>23794156No one show this to the motorcycle guy from Victory.
FUCK YEAH BALL THREAD YYYYEEEEEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
Federation Sentai Ballman.
>>23793738It's a little too greebled but I like it
Meanwhile, in the Cosmic Era…
>>23793474If one missed out on the official kid, are there any conversion kits or 3d printable bits to turn a regular HGUC Ball into a thunderball?
>>23793474What IS a ball? A small mobile armor? There wasn't anything quite like it after the OYW
>>23796505A scaled-up and armored space pod for providing fire support en masse.
I kinda wanted to buy a Ball Ver.Ka as decor for my car's dash but then again it might melt in the summer.
>>23797070>packed with explodium
>>23796505It's a conversion of a design meant for mobility, construction and utility in space, particularly around colonies. You know how in some lore Zeon's MS program started as an offshoot of civilian utility platforms? Balls are basically the militarised offshoot of what a mobile worker would've been supplementing or replacing.
>>23793474https://youtu.be/8W55ATs2MLk?si=_iLgrUXEab8kvyNU
>>23797073>explodium>TVTBruh.
>>23799067>TVT>BruhI don't follow.
>>23793537Theoretically ambush tactics.Has half the power output of a Zaku. If you souped one up with an actual MS reactor, changed the weapons to something a little more balanced than the long gun on top, and upgraded the verniers, a custom Ball could zip around the battlefield pretty fast. Maybe four missile pods or something like that. Blitz em and head back to ship for resupply.
>>23793646I love the name of this variant >"Flying Lunchbox"Kino
>>23799301"Explodium" is TV Tropes lingo.
>>23803080>If you souped one up with an actual MS reactorWould it even be able to fit one?
>>23805712it's already the size of the RX-78 torso without arms and legs
>>23805796That's something I've always wondered about. The Ball is so damn big, but has a crew of one. Giant windows, minimal reactor and equipment. What's it packed with? Fuel? Based on how mobile suits are laid out you'd think the Ball would either have a relative huge crew module or be capable of weeks-long operations being full of supplies.
>>23806287No fuel, at least on the early ball models their maneuvering thrusters were explosive charges
>>23806287I think it's just a bit of inconsistency. Worker pod balls tend to be depicted as pretty small. I don't remember the exact scale of the 08th MS Team Ball but that one also wasn't super huge like the HG or MG (if I remember right, feel free to correct me)If we wanted actual justifications, we could say that a lot of it is bulk because the Ball as a worker pod is a space machine meant to work with genuinely large and heavy stuff, like, say, space colony parts. You want a robust generator or battery, you want enough of a sturdy frame and shielding to protect that equipment and the pilot both from impacts and the vacuum, all of the life support, which could include cooling or heating mechanisms, the electronics and comms equipment and sensors and the computing power to run them all, all of the thrusters and fuel, hydraulics, and the weapon system in the case of combat Balls.
>>23806293They hadn't discovered liquid propellant yet?
A Shmup like Einhander but with Balls. Yes or No?
>>23809418It's more about using what you have available. If the regular ships and MS have priority for the liquid propellant supply but you have a bunch of solid propellant available that's not being used, why not create a machine that can use solid propellant? The Ball isn't intended to be a high spec machine so it's not like giving it liquid propellant really makes a huge difference anyway.Alternatively, we could look at it from the other direction, maybe the civilian worker pod was originally designed to use solid fuel since it's for construction and never needed to move at high speed, and solid fuel is comparatively easy to handle (no worries about fuel leaks, probably comes in easy to handle bricks, it's shelf-stable and can be stored for a long time).>>23806287Compounding with what >>23806372 said, since the Ball wasn't designed for war in the first place, the designers didn't have to maximize armor given a volume and\or mass. Instead they focused on crew comfort, I mean no one wants to operate a construction vehicle with a tiny cramped interior like a coffin just because it's more space efficient and might be suitable for conversion into some barely armored deathtrap of a military vehicle in the future?>>23806372>I think it's just a bit of inconsistency. Worker pod balls tend to be depicted as pretty small. I don't remember the exact scale of the 08th MS Team Ball but that one also wasn't super huge like the HG or MG (if I remember right, feel free to correct me)There aren't a lot of useful angles during the fight to compare the size of the two units that well, but generally it looks like the Ball is also more or less the size of the Zaku's torso.
>>23793550That's Dyntasy Warriors Gundam 3.
>>23809598>and MSFeds didn't have those until the last third of the war!
>>23809436MGS Tacticool Stealth But Descent
>>23796944The weak should fear the strong
>>23813811
Balls that look like Mr and Mrs. Pac Man. They can fly, shoot, and eat other mobile suits.
Turn A Ball. Moonlight butterfly? No, moonlight pinball. Multi ball madness that destroys everything.
>>23795625piggybacking off this are there any 3d print bits to turn a regular hg or mg ball into the F type?
Was the oggo a worthy adversary to the ball?
>>23793474If the Moebius was the Ball, then what is UC's answer to the Moebius Zero and Exus?
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>>23819322blew my mind when I learned that those were developed into Gaza-Cs
>The Ball doesn't get enough lovemaybe yours doesn't
>>23819388wtf why? How?
I just found out that canonically, the RX-76 was a prototype for the Ball. Do we know how this Gunball would even look? I kind of wish they had a pet Ball in the White Base for the entirety of 79.
>>23819868https://gundam.fandom.com/wiki/AMX-001_Gaza-A
>>23819869There's a bunch of machines that are referenced only by name or model number in lorebooks, not all of them have official art. E.g., Delta Gundam existed only in name for several years before finally getting some CG art in the early 2000s, while the Guntank prototype RTX-44 still hasn't been given a design yet. We know it's related to the RTX-440 from MS Igloo 2, but that's it. Technically all of the Geara Zulus that we see in Unicorn are customized versions of a base model that is even more barren in terms of features, etc.
>>23819869I would guess some hybrid of the ball and space pod. Maybe they strapped the 180mm and explosive charge thrusters onto the pod as a proof of concept
>>23819868You can already see the beginning of it with the cylindrical structure - what's Oggo's entire body is like Gaza-C's upper chest.And for the record this connection was already fully intended when Oggo was designed.
Imagine Dendrobium x Ball
don't mind me just ermm passing through
>>23826222>tfw you're stuck playing second fiddle to two lunatics
>>23830038Should I even ask what is transpiring in that illustration?
